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Date Posted: 10:44:42 10/19/04 Tue
Author: Krista Stachler
Subject: Remembering Stacey

I have been wanting to post a note to the family for some time but have never found the right words to explain my relationship with Stacey. I decided today that I am just going to post it as best I can. I hope it makes sense. My name is Krista and I was Stacey�s roommate her freshman year and my sophomore year. She was the only freshman in a dorm room filled with sophomores, and we were pretty hard on her. She took things in stride, always having a positive attitude. Having shared a room with Stacey, I got a chance to get to know her better than the rest of the girls in the dorm. One particular story has stuck with me even to this day. One afternoon I returned from class to find Stacey standing on a chair holding a bottle of shampoo like a microphone�..Singing her lungs out to �My Brown Eyed Girl� by Van Morrison. She had a smile from ear to ear and was the happiest I have ever seen anyone. I guess that would have been awkward for anyone else, but to me it was just Stacey doing her thing. After that school year Stacey went on to live in the honors dorm and I moved into a house off campus. We would run into each other on our way to class, but never hung out socially once we moved out of the dorms. A couple years later I heard the sad news. It really affected me. I didn�t go to any of the memorials, but I found my own way to remember Stacey. I started to realize that every time I heard the song �My brown Eyed Girl�, I thought of Stacey. It is amazing how often that song is played. So now, when I hear that song I take a moment to remember Stacey. I also take a moment to realize that whatever is going on in my life, good or bad, it is a part of life and I should enjoy it. I take that moment and live it for Stacey, whether it is a beautiful fall day, a first date, or a friend�s wedding. I just wanted to post this to let Stacey�s family and friends know that even though she is not on the news everyday and the postings have slowed down on the site, she is still remembered. She lives on in my life daily. She has changed the way that I look at the world. I am getting married next year and I will have �My Brown Eyed Girl� played. In that moment I will be thinking of her and her love of life. I know that a little bit of Stacey lives on in me. I feel blessed to have had her affect my life in such an important way.

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